Shippenburg Community Fair Inc

Analysis

Shippenburg Community Fair Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Shippensburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1995, 31 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Shippenburg Community Fair Inc reported income of $880k and spending of $795k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $564k to $880k (+56%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 202%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Shippenburg Community Fair Inc sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 76th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Wayland Community Pool Inc ($880k), Keliix Intra Soccer Club ($881k) and North Shore Holiday House Inc ($880k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 5.3% and program service revenue 94% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.7m.